Research/Creative Activity and Innovations in Curriculum and Student Success
Purpose/Objective
To provide living costs for faculty who intend to devote an entire summer to intensive research, broadly defined to include the scholarship of discovery, integration, application and teaching (developing new curricula components or courses, or projects that create, adapt, and disseminate new learning materials and teaching strategies that reflect advances both in our disciplines and in what is known about teaching and learning). In order to assist faculty in developing a stronger scholarly basis for promotion and tenure, the Grants Committee gives preference to tenure-track faculty.
Eligibility
Summer Faculty Fellowships for Research or Creative Activity are limited to continuing tenure-track and tenured faculty. Summer Faculty Fellowships for Innovations in Curriculum and Student Success are limited to continuing full-time, tenure-track faculty; tenured faculty; clinical faculty; and lecturers.
Note: This award is a summer stipend. It is not intended for the purchase of hardware, software, equipment or supplies, or for travel expenses.
Filing Deadline
The filing deadline is in October. Please see Deadlines in the Guidelines/Application for current dates. Please keep a copy of your application on file for personal use.
Duration
Summer (approximately three months of active project time), typically from end of classes in spring semester to the week prior to classes beginning in the fall semester.
Letters of Support
The applicant should request supporting letters from at least one person who is knowledgeable in the field of the proposed project. Please list names, titles, addresses, and telephone numbers of persons who will supply references. Letters should be addressed to the Associate Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and are to be included in the application packet that must arrive in Academic Affairs (sent to acadaffs@iu.edu) by deadline provided in the Guidelines/Application provided for the current dates in October.
Special Restrictions
The grant (1) may not be awarded to any faculty member who has not completed all of the requirements for the terminal degree in his or her particular discipline; (2) recipients must not hold any other service-rendering appointments at any time throughout the summer; (3) recipients must continue at Indiana University through the following academic year; (4) any application involving the use of human subjects must be accompanied by evidence that it has been approved by the IU Institutional Review Boards (IRB). Without such approval and in the absence of unusual extenuating circumstances, an application will not be considered; and (5) any applications involving the use of animals must be accompanied by evidence that it has been approved by the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees (IACUC).
Special Notice
The project should be described in enough detail to adequately justify the requested fellowship. Care should be taken in completing the application. The Grants Committee is particularly concerned with the methodology of the research. The faculty member is advised to be thorough in preparing the application, adding supplementary materials where considered relevant. Be specific and try to write with an educated lay reader in mind. Avoid language or jargon that tends to reflect a specialized discipline
Type of Support
The fellowship is paid directly to the faculty member on or about June 1 and is subject to taxation as provided by Internal Revenue Service regulations and United States law. The University cannot be responsible for any unexpected circumstances.
Obligations
All faculty members who receive an award must file a brief informative report on project outcomes with the Office of Academic Affairs upon completion of their project (or fellowship) to acadaffs@iu.edu by October 1st. If the work is not completed by the end of the fall semester following the receipt of the grant (or fellowship), a progress report must be submitted. These reports may be reviewed by future Grants Committees to assist them in evaluating subsequent applications of a faculty member and serve as guides to program revision. Failure to submit these reports will cause a faculty member to be ineligible for all categories of IU Northwest support for research and teaching development.
Award Notice
Letters of award/rejection from the Office of Academic Affairs are sent upon completion of the review and selection process.
Form Route
An (or ) for a Summer Faculty Fellowship should be sent to the department chairperson (where appropriate) and then to the unit head for recommendation. From there it is sent to the Academic Affairs Office where it is evaluated by the Grants and Research Development Committee. The Committee reserves the right to review, evaluate, and revise all grant requests originating on the IU Northwest campus. The grant application is then forwarded to the Academic Affairs Office with the Committee's recommendation.
Additional Grant Program Information
For additional grant information, please contact Bill Allegrezza (AEVCAA) at wallegre@iu.edu or 219-980-6847.
